Archive for January 31st 2016

About 30 firefighters are still at the scene of a blaze that has destroyed a former mill in Bradford.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue crews worked through the night to contain the fire at Drummonds Mill in Manningham.
Ian Bitcon, of West Yorkshire Fir...

Two teenagers have admitted setting fire to a homeless disabled man who was sheltering in a sleeping bag.
Exeter Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of a lit piece of cardboard being put on the sleeping bag in Barnstaple's Pannier Market.
The boys, wh...

A fire on an Isle of Wight industrial estate started accidentally when welding sparks came into contact with fuel, a fire service has said.
Flames ripped through the site after the fire started in a car workshop at Medina Village, Cowes on Monday.
Fo...

A Belfast family has been left homeless after a fire, which they say was caused by a child's hoverboard.
Sharon Massey's home, on Ardgowan Street in east Belfast, was destroyed in the incident.
Ms Massey bought a hoverboard for her daughter for Chris...

A father accused with his two sons of murdering two teenagers and a baby in a house fire said his only plan that night had been to "smash up a car".
Six-month-old Ruby-Grace Gaunt, her mother Amy Smith, 17, and friend Edward Green, 17, died in the ho...

Firms in Somerset and Devon are to be charged if they repeatedly call the fire service for broken lift rescues.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue has said it costs £303 for a one-hour attendance using one appliance.
Neil Blackburn from the service ...

A fire has broken out at a workshop on an industrial estate on the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue said more than 50 firefighters were tackling the blaze at Medina Village on Bridge Road in Cowes.
Fifty fibreglass boats are believed to b...